Billy the Great Khan
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I honestly don't care about soccer.
Helen Mirren Should Fucking Hang!
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You have no understanding about any aspect of history and even less about Rugby,
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Out of curiosity, whom did they fight against over the "faulklin" islands?
Topspin is the most embarrassing poster on JPP, he constantly harps on about his expensive private education yet is seemingly totally unaware of how bad he looks to others.
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Tom like most Brits needs a dentist and a hobby. Your country is so boring you have to come on a us politics site.
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He's bad, but he's nowhere near as embarrassing as CK, Dixie, Midcan, SM, Taicheeze, Lowaicue, Threedee, or Watermark...
LOL. So that's why Green sucked so bad! He was embarrassed that a company went and screwed up something and in a nationalistic fervor went and handed us the draw...
Only ones that come here. Their actors in their own shows are like our soccer* players, you know, Dr. Who and stuff. Although their comedy is hands-down better than ours. SNL just absolutely blows.
*football for those people across the pond.
The pads are weapons. I dare you to get on the field with a 300 pound man in those hard pads and helmet and play "rugby" like a tough guy all without pads.
Dude, bashing BP is bashing a company, not a nation. Why is it that you Brits are so thin skinned that a company that no longer even has "British" in its name is representative of your whole nation emotionally?
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I only really disagree about Low, he is a very clever man and I miss him. Dixie also has his moments.
A moment of truce...is Low OK?
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The same England that ran to the English channel at Dunkirk running and crying the Germans are coming. You guys swam faster than Michael phelps. You struggled to take the faulkin islands.
Where did Lowaicue go anyway?
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You are obviously unaware of the All Blacks and the Springboks! Bear in mind that they play without helmets and body armour.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHW1K2LeQXE"]YouTube- NZ Maori haka v Ireland A[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d804v87tUog"]YouTube- Springbok Rugby[/ame]
I'm telling you, put them in armor and then watch. Injuries are much worse in Football* than in Rugby for a reason. And believe me, I like Rugby (to play, not to watch).
*Not soccer you Brits, American Football
When I was in HS we had an Aussie in the exchange program, he was all on about how much "tougher" you had to be to play Rugby, he went out and contemptuously was going to "show" us by playing football without pads. The first time he was hit, he was on the sideline for an hour trying to gain back his brain capacity. He stopped.
Billy the Great Khan
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Actually the Brits kicked ass on both occasions. I'm positive it's because they replaces their troops with pure Irish and Scots, but still an ass kicking.
This sums it up nicely:
I visited Australia a decade or so ago; a rugby match was on the TV at a local pub. Being one of the few identified Americans in the establishment, it wasn't too surprising that the topic of gridiron (NFL-style American football) eventually came up among my Aussie hosts. Despite my largely failed attempts to convince the crowd that gridiron was every bit as rough as rugby, all I could garner was at best total dismissal, and at worst contempt.
The perception outside the U.S. is that American Football is just bastardized rugby with thick padding designed to avoid the physical harm associated with the Union sport. Interestingly, most Americans hold an inverse perception: that rugby is gridiron without the pads, and as such, rugby is perceived as senselessly violent.
The misconceptions between rugby and gridiron are rooted in the belief that gridiron and rugby are similar sports. The truth, however, is far from this, as anyone who's ever played both sports can attest. In rugby, the only collision (i.e., running at speed for the purpose of forcing a player to the ground) is when one has the ball. The other 29 lads on the pitch are there for support. In American football, 21 of the 22 players had better be colliding with someone on every down - at full speed. In gridiron, there is collision while blocking. In rugby, the equivalent is called "obstruction" and is illegal, thus there are far more opportunities - requirements - for player collision in American football.
The styles of tackling are also very different. In rugby, the object is to bring the player to the ground in order to force a turnover. In gridiron, on the other hand, the purpose of tackling is to not yield a single millimeter of turf to the opposition advance. Rugby is largely about possession and gridiron is largely about territory. This creates two immensely differing approaches to tackling.
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